Trivia

Unofficially adopted aspiring actor Jamie Bell whilst shooting Billy Elliot (2000).

Received an Oscar-nomination as Best Director for his first three movies: Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008). He is the first person ever to accomplish this.

Has directed 6 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Julie Walters, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, and Max von Sydow. Kidman and Winslet both won Oscars for performances in one of his movies.

Was in a relationship with Ian MacNeil for 13 years. They met in 1988 at an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland directed by their mutual friend Ian Forest.

Father of a daughter with wife Lucy Sexton. Their daughter Annabel Clare was born in May 2003.

He was awarded the 1992 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Director for An Inspector Calls.

Won Broadway's 1994 Tony Award as Best Director (Play) for "An Inspector Calls."

He was awarded the 2009 Tony Award for Director of a Musical for "Billy Elliott" on Broadway in New York City.

He has directed three films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Hours (2002), The Reader (2008) and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011).

Ranked #92 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. It is his first appearance on the list.

He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 New Year's Honours List for his services to Drama.

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Director of a Play for Machinal at the Royal National Theatre.

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1993 (1992 season) for Best Director for a Play for An Inspector Calls at the Royal National Theatre.

He was awarded the 1992 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for An Inspector Calls.

Graduated from the University of Sheffield and completed an apprenticeship at the city's Crucible Theatre.

Won Broadway's 2009 Tony Award as Best Director (Musical) for "Billy Elliot".

He was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Direction for "An Inspector Calls," in the Royal National Theatre production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Won the 2018 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series category for Paterfamilias (2017).

Mayfair, London, England (May 2009)